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  • Bill Dedman In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bill Murray In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Allen Klein In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Caitlin Flanagan In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Brene Brown In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Boris Spassky In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • A. J. P. Taylor In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Alice Munro In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Barbara de Angelis In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Jo Coudert In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.
    Jo Coudert
    American author
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Ezra Pound In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Nancy Astor In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
    Nancy Astor
    First woman Member of Parliament (1879 - 1964)
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  • Harold Wilson In politics a week is a very long time.
    Harold Wilson
    British Labour politician (1916 - 1995)
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  • Bill Gross In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Anita Brookner In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Anita Brookner In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Dan Cruickshank In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit - if totally different in form - from all the romantic architecture of the past.
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